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Teacher of English - January 2020

Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green, Essex, IG8 0TP

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• Job start date

  1 January 2020

• Closing date

  15 December 2019 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  5 December 2019

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Full-time equivalent salary: Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £28,356 to £44,541

Teacher of English - January 2020 job summary

Trinity Catholic High School is an outstandingly successful and oversubscribed 11-18 mixed comprehensive with 1680 students on roll. The school has been recognised as outstanding on five consecutive occasions by Ofsted and in our Section 48 inspection in December 2014. Our latest Ofsted inspection in March 2015 stated ‘the inspirational headteacher is passionately committed to helping every student develop a love of learning. Staff and governors share his enthusiasm and his very high expectations’; ‘a strong sense of shared moral purpose makes the school a very happy and purposeful place’. Our Catholic identity and mission spring from the passionate conviction that Christ and his church will transform the world through us.

Trinity wishes to appoint an enthusiastic and talented Teacher of English to join our highly successfully school and English department from January 2020. All teachers in the English department are expected to be able to teach to KS4 standard. The ability to teach English Literature or English Language and Literature to A level would be an advantage. Students follow the AQA syllabus at GCSE and A-Level. English is an exceptional department; the quality of teaching is outstanding as is curriculum quality. Outcomes within this department are superb and rank among the highest in the school.

Trinity seeks to provide a first - rate education to our students. Our pastoral care is exceptional as are the outcomes achieved by students at all key stages. In 2019:
• Percentage of 9-7 grades across the school: 38%. 34% of students achieved 5+ 9-7; 8% of all grades were the top grade 9.
• The percentage of students at 5+ in English and Mathematics is 68%; 86% attained the standard pass in both English and Mathematics – both significantly higher than national figures.
• At GCSE English Literature 92% of students attained 9-4 and 38% of students attained 9-7 grades. In English Language at GCSE 92% of students attained 9-4 grades and 32% of students attained 9-7 grades.
• 106 grade 9s were awarded across all GCSE subjects.
• Progress 8 is +0.51 and well above the national average, top 15% of Schools.
• Attainment 8; 58.87 and above the national average of 46.55.
• A*-E in our sixth form of 480+ students is 97%.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Trinity Catholic High School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1641 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Trinity Catholic High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@tchs.uk.net
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/trinity-catholic-high-school (opens in new tab)

Trinity Catholic High School is large Catholic comprehensive school situated in the London Borough of Redbridge and within the Diocese of Brentwood. Ofsted have ranked us as ‘outstanding’ on 5 consecutive occasions and we have a reputation for excellence in all aspects of our service to the children in our school and the wider community. Our school’s inspection reports can be viewed on this link: www.tchs.org.uk/about-us/inspections. The highest standards relating to Teaching and Learning are a feature of daily life at Trinity and these significantly and positively impact student progress and attainment. Trinity’s Section 48 report (January 2020) states that “Trinity Catholic High School is an outstanding school and a beacon of high-quality Catholic education. It has an excellent reputation in the local community and beyond and it is rightly seen as a flagship school for the Diocese of Brentwood”. The report also emphasises that “Catholic life at Trinity Catholic High School is outstanding and is of the highest quality” and “Every aspect of Collective Worship at the school is outstanding".

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